Another Friendship Day came and went, and as tradition would have it – I didn’t wish anybody. But it did get me thinking – as happens to all of us -from what we are reading concurrently, to what we are watching, and what the internet…
Category: Life
//Every December is the season for Unhaving. Unhaving. Or, Breaking with the past.// Te Quiero. When I teach Spanish, these are my favourite verbs to start with – tengo and quiero. Tengo is ‘I have’ and Quiero is ‘I want’. I lure the beginners with…
I mostly have no problem with delayed flights, in fact I like them – it gives me more time with my book, and it’s indeed something to dissolve into another world, sitting under those big awnings and towering steel girders, whilst watching airplanes sashaying in…
You know India is a country of many many things, it’s a crazy, heaving, pulsating leviathan of a land with its swathes of browns and its few glimmers of 24 carat gold. The bus never stops at the designated bus stop, people run to catch…
The first thing they say about Gloria Steinem in Mrs. America, where Cate Blanchett and Sarah Paulson are looking at her face splashed across the front covers of a magazine, while having their heads shampooed and steamed and blow dried in a salon, having to…